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A son returns home to care for his mother, filming the last year they will spend together.
After five years away, a son returns to Doha to care for his mother during her chemotherapy. Confronted by changes in his home and his mother's transformation, he grapples with the shifting nature of identity, memory, and language. Navigating the familiar yet foreign landscape of his childhood home, he reflects on what it means to be "home" and the unspoken distance between himself and his parents.

Torn between holding onto the past through memories and facing the present reality defined by illness, the son films his mother to freeze time—capturing her essence before it fades. But as the moments pass and the camera rolls, he realises that some things cannot be captured, and some silences cannot be filled with words. In the quiet spaces between frames, he not only seeks to understand his mother’s suffering but also strives to reconcile with his own grief, anger, and deep love—feelings he has never quite known how to express.

Credits

Director
Sebastian Delascasas
Screenwriter
Sebastian Delascasas
Producer
Sebastian Delascasas

About the Director

Sebastian Delascasas
Sebastian Delascasas is a Colombian filmmaker born in Bogotá and raised in Doha, Qatar, whose work is shaped by a deeply multicultural upbringing. He is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he received the Outstanding Achievement in Studio Award. As an actor, Sebastian can be seen in the feature film ‘Charlie Harper’, which premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Se
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